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This is a list of megalopolises grouped by geographical region and country.

Africa

• Nile Delta and Nile River at night from space
• Pretoria, South Africa
• Nairobi, Kenya
• Lagos, Nigeria

Country	Megalopolis	Major cities and areas	Population estimate
Egypt	Greater Cairo	The Governorates of Cairo, Giza and Qalyubiyya	22,183,000
	Nile Delta	Governorates of Alexandria, Beheira, Kafr el-Sheikh, Gharbia, Monufia, Qalyubiyya, Dakahlia, Damietta, Al Sharqia, and Port Said	50,322,424
Kenya	Nairobi Metropolitan Region	The counties of Kajiado, Kiambu, Nairobi, Machakos and Murang'a	10,411,220
Morocco	El Jadida-Casablanca-Rabat-Salé-Kenitra	El Jadida-Casablanca-Rabat-Salé-Kenitra	11,000,000
South Africa	Gauteng Province	The cities of Pretoria, Witwatersrand and Vereeniging includes the urbanised portion of Pretoria, Centurion, Midrand, Johannesburg and the Vaal Triangle	15,810,400
Benin	Abidjan–Lagos Corridor	Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Porto-Novo	42,436,069
Ghana		Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi-Takoradi
Côte d'Ivoire		Abidjan
Nigeria		Lagos
Togo		Lomé

Asia

East Asia

• Beijing, China
• Hong Kong
• Seoul, South Korea
• Shanghai, China
• Taipei, Taiwan
• Tokyo, Japan

• Yangtze Delta
• The Jing-Jin-Ji Metropolitan Region is the central part of the Bohai Economic Rim
• Taiheiyō Belt
• Satellite view of western Taiwan.

Country	Megalopolis	Major cities and areas	Population estimate
China	Further information: Megalopolises in China
Japan	Greater Tokyo Area	Kantō region, broadly including Tokyo and Yokohama	38,000,000
	Keihanshin	Kansai region, includes Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe	19,000,000
	Taiheiyō Belt (includes both the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihanshin megapoles)	Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Wakayama, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Fukuoka, and Ōita	81,000,000
South Korea	Greater Busan Area	Busan, Ulsan, Changwon, Gimhae, Yangsan, Jinju	13,000,000
	Seoul National Capital Area	Seoul, Incheon, Suwon, Goyang, Yongin, Seongnam, and the rest of Gyeonggi Province	26,000,000
Taiwan	West Coast of Taiwan	Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Changhua, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung	18,000,000

Southeast Asia

• Jakarta, Indonesia
• Surabaya, Indonesia
• Mega Manila
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Bangkok, Thailand
• Jakarta in 2011, from the ISS
• Surabaya in 2014, from the ISS
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Singapore

Country	Megalopolis	Major cities and areas	Population estimate
Indonesia	Jakarta metropolitan area (Jabodetabek)	Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi	54,900,000
	Surabaya metropolitan area (Gerbangkertosusila)	Gresik, Bangkalan, Mojokerto, Surabaya, Sidoarjo and Lamongan	19,700,000
Philippines	Mega Manila	Regions Central Luzon, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Mimaropa excluding Palawan, and regional centers San Fernando-Manila-Calamba-Calapan	41,100,000
Thailand	Bay of Bangkok Economic Rim	Bangkok–Ayutthaya–Pattaya	20,800,000
Vietnam	Red River Delta	Hanoi, Hai Phong, Nam Định, and Hải Dương	21,000,000
	Southeast Economic Zone	Đồng Nai, Bình Dương, Ho Chi Minh City, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Long An, Tiền Giang	22,900,000

Note: The Indonesian megalopolis names come from acronyms of the included cities.

South Asia

Country	Megalopolis	Major cities and areas	Population estimate
India	Chennai Megalopolis	Districts of Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, Ranipet	12,400,000
	Delhi-NCR Megalopolis	Cities of Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Meerut and Noida	46,000,000
	Mumbai Megalopolis	Cities of Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan-Dombivali, Vasai-Virar, Panvel	27,100,000

Southwest Asia

Country	Megalopolis	Major cities and areas	Population estimate
Iran	Greater Tehran	Tehran and Alborz provinces expanding into Mazandaran, Qazvin, and Qom	15,000,000
Turkey	Greater Istanbul	Cities of Istanbul and Bursa; Gebze, Yalova, Kocaeli, and Adapazarı	22,376,297

Europe

Ordered by population estimate rather than alphabetical by country due to the number of countries included in each megalopolis.
These are not generally accepted names or groupings, and the cities listed are in many cases not contiguous.

Megalopolis	Major cities and areas	Population estimate
Blue Banana	United Kingdom: Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Leicester, Nottingham, Birmingham, London  Netherlands: Randstad (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht), Eindhoven  Belgium: Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège  Germany: Rhine-Ruhr, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg  Luxembourg: Luxembourg  France: Strasbourg, Lille, Paris   Switzerland: Zürich, Basel  Italy: Turin, Milan, Venice	110,000,000–130,000,000
Golden Banana	Italy: Turin, Genoa  France: Nice, Toulon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Nîmes, Montpellier, Narbonne, Perpignan  Monaco: Monaco  Andorra: Andorra  Spain: Girona, Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Terrassa, Sabadell, Badalona, Tarragona, Castellón de la Plana, Valencia, Alicante	40,000,000–45,000,000
Orange Banana	Ukraine: Odesa  Romania: Constanţa  Bulgaria: Varna, Burgas  Turkey: Istanbul	30,000,000
Green Banana	Poland: Gdańsk, Warsaw, Łódź, Kraków, Katowice, Wrocław  Ukraine: Kyiv  Czech Republic: Brno, Ostrava, Prague  Slovakia: Bratislava  Austria: Vienna  Hungary: Budapest, Pécs, Győr, Székesfehérvár, Szombathely  Croatia: Zagreb, Rijeka  Slovenia: Ljubljana  Italy: Trieste	40,000,000–45,000,000
STRING	Norway: Oslo (county Viken)  Sweden: Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Malmö (counties Västra Götaland, Halland, Skåne)  Denmark: Copenhagen (Capital Region of Denmark, Region of Southern Denmark)  Germany: Hamburg, Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein state)	14,000,000
Atlantic Axis	Spain: Vigo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña  Portugal: Setúbal, Lisbon, Santarém, Leiria, Coimbra, Viseu, Aveiro, Porto, Braga, Viana do Castelo	12,000,000
Gulf of Finland	Finland: Kotka, Kouvola, Espoo, Helsinki, Vantaa, Lappeenranta, Lahti  Russia: Gatchina, Saint Petersburg, Vyborg, Sosnovy Bor  Estonia: Tallinn, Narva, Tartu	7,000,000

North America

• Quebec City in Quebec City–Windsor Corridor
• Mexico City megalopolis

Country	Megalopolis	Major cities and areas	Population estimate
Canada	Quebec City–Windsor Corridor	Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Markham, Mississauga, Montreal, Oshawa, Ottawa, Peterborough, Quebec City, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Trois-Rivières, Vaughan, Waterloo, Windsor	18,400,000
Canada  United States	Cascadia	Canada: Abbotsford, Surrey, Vancouver (BC), Victoria United States: Bellevue, Eugene, Everett, Portland (OR), Salem, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Tri-Cities, Vancouver (WA)	8,400,000
	Great Lakes	Canada: Brampton, Cambridge, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Mississauga, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Oshawa, Ottawa, Quebec City, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Vaughan, Waterloo, Windsor United States: Akron, Ann Arbor, Buffalo, Canton, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Des Moines, Detroit, Duluth, Erie, Flint, Fort Wayne, Green Bay, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Lansing, Louisville, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Omaha, Pittsburgh, Quad Cities, Rochester (NY), Rochester (MN), Rockford, Traverse City, Saginaw, St. Louis, Saint Paul, Sandusky, South Bend, Toledo, Youngstown	59,100,000
Mexico	Bajío	Guadalajara, León, Querétaro, Aguascalientes, Celaya, Irapuato, San Juan del Río, Salamanca	11,000,000
	Mexico City megalopolis	Mexico City, Puebla, Cuernavaca, Toluca, Pachuca, Tula, Tlaxcala, Cuautla, Tulancingo	30,800,000
United States	North East Corridor	Albany, Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Brookhaven, Hartford, Hempstead, Jersey City, Newark, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Springfield, Washington D.C.	50,000,000
Mexico  United States	Southern California	Mexico: Tijuana United States: Anaheim, Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oceanside, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego	24,400,000
United States	Further information: Megaregions of the United States

South America

• Satellite image of Greater Buenos Aires at night
• Parque Lezama, Buenos Aires
• Ponte Estaiada, São Paulo
• Expanded Metropolitan Complex of São Paulo, Brazil
• Bogotá Skyline
• Cartagena de Indias
• Santiago, Chile
• Lima, Perú
• Maracaibo Lake Narrows, the city of Maracaibo connected by bridge to the Eastern Coast cities.
• Caracas, Venezuela

Country	Megalopolis	Major cities and areas	Population estimate
Argentina	Greater Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires; Merlo, Moreno; Quilmes; Florencio Varela, La Matanza	14,967,000
Brazil	Eixo Goiânia-Anápolis-Brasília	Greater Goiânia and Federal District (Brazil)	8,000,000
	Greater Belo Horizonte	Belo Horizonte and Contagem	5,800,000
	Greater Curitiba	Curitiba and São José dos Pinhais	3,500,000
	Greater Porto Alegre	Porto Alegre and Canoas	4,200,000
	Greater Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro, Baixada Fluminense, and Niterói-São Gonçalo	13,000,000
	Recife metropolitan area	Recife and Jaboatão dos Guararapes	3,900,000
	Rio de Janeiro–São Paulo Megalopolis	São Paulo Macrometropolis and Greater Rio de Janeiro	51,500,000
	São Paulo Macrometropolis	São Paulo, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Sorocaba, Jundiaí, Piracicaba, Santos	34,500,000
	Salvador metropolitan area	Salvador and Camaçari	3,900,000
Colombia	Bogota National Capital Metropolis	Bogotá, Soacha, Facatativá, Chía, Tunja, Fusagasugá, Zipaquirá, Madrid, Funza, Cajicá, Ubaté, Sibaté, Guaduas, Villa de Leyva and Tocancipá	17,000,000
	Golden Triangle	Bogotá, Soacha, Medellín, Cali, Cartago, Tuluá, Buga, Bello, Manizales, Armenia, Pereira, Dosquebradas, Ibagué, Girardot, El Espinal and Fusagasugá	29,500,000
	Northeast Atlantic Region	Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Ciénaga, Malambo, Baranoa and Turbaco	6,000,000
	Pacific Belt	Medellín, Cali, Bello, Pereira, Manizales, Armenia, Itagüí, Yumbo, Tuluá, Cartago, Buga and Palmira	9,000,000
	Santander Belt	Bucaramanga, Floridablanca, Girón, Piedecuesta, Cúcuta, Ocaña, Villa del Rosario and Pamplona	3,000,000
Chile	Santiago-Valparaíso	Santiago, Valparaíso-Viña del Mar and Rancagua	8,000,000
Peru	Lima-Callao Megalopolis	Lima and Callao	12,523,796
Venezuela	Caracas-Valencia	Caracas, Valencia, and Maracay	9,000,000
	Maracaibo Lake Narrows	Maracaibo, Cabimas and Ciudad Ojeda	3,500,000

Notes

1. While initially excluded, has included in later versions

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